Mar. 28. 1915: Emma Goldman arrested for telling first U.S. audience how to use contraceptives; chooses 15 days in jail over $100 fine. 1979: Plant failure and partial meltdown results in release of radioactivity at Three Mile Island nuclear power facility, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Mar. 29. 1987: Vietnam Veterans For Peace marching from Jinotega reach Wicuili, Nicaragua.

Mar. 30. 1870: Ratification of 15th Amendment to U.S. Constitution gives African-American men the right to vote. Poll taxes and literacy tests soon follow.

Mar. 31. 1997: Four East Timorese arrested in Warton, England, at the British Aerospace factory where Indonesian Hawk fighter jets, used in the ongoing occupation and genocide of their homeland, are built.

Apr. 1. 1866: Congress overrides Pres. Andrew Johnson's veto of Civil Rights Bill and gives equal rights to all men born in the U.S. except Indians. 1955: Boycott of segregated schools begins, South Africa.

Apr. 2. 1966: 100,000 Vietnamese demonstrate in Da Nang against U.S. and South Vietnamese governments. Civil unrest spreads to Hue and Saigon. 1982: President Reagan authorizes much broader powers for federal government to withhold public information on "national security" grounds.

Apr. 3. 1963: 700 in Budget Day protest against taxation for nuclear arms, House of Commons, London. 1969: Blacks riot in Chicago in response to police brutality.

Apr. 4. 1914: Unemployed riot in Union Square, New York City. 1969: CBS-TV touches off censorship controversy by its cancellation of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."

Apr. 5. 1208: Quetzalcoatl, Toltec king, priest, astronomer and culture-hero, dies; he reduced Mayan calendar and appendices to a system of signs and ideographs which fitted all languages equally. 1996: Fifty-four arrested in Good Friday protest at Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, Livermore, Calif.

Apr. 6. 1832: Black Hawk War begins when Sauk/Fox return to plant traditional corn fields and are repulsed by whites. 1952: Mass meetings of non-whites to protest against apartheid, South Africa.

Apr. 7. 1966: Two prosecuted for burning conscription papers, Sydney, Australia. 1991: Over 5,000 rally against police brutality in Los Angeles.

Apr. 8. 1712: Slave revolt, New York City. 1973: A Harris Poll reports 51% in U.S. support the American Indian Movement protesters occupying Wounded Knee; 21% support the federal government.

Apr. 9. 1754: Letter from Indian slave trader to South Carolina Gov. J. Glenn asking for permission to use one group of Indians to fight another: "We want no pay, only what we can take and plunder, and what slaves we take to be our own." 1995: Over 100,000 at Rally for Women's Lives, Washington D.C.

Apr. 10. 1947: Jackie Robinson appears in first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first African-American to play major league baseball after 78 years of segregation. The game, until a franchise moved to Atlanta in the mid-'60s, was played entirely in northern cities.